To steal from Sports Illustrated, this week's sign that the apocalypse is upon comes from talkingpresidents.com, a company famous for making a 12" doll of G.W. Bush and giving it an electronic chip that allows the thing to repeat famous Bush phrases. In their ever-expanding product line, the people of talkingpresidents.com have deigned to issue an Ann Coulter doll. I am, to put it lightly, amused. It earned an Anavel Gato-ish "Hmmph!" when I first heard it mentioned (by John Derbyshire, nonetheless) and I had to go hunting via Google to find out just what it was he was talking about.

Anyways. I do my part in the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy and occasionally chuckle at Miss Coulter's vituperative eviscerations, and I'll probably pony up the money to acquire one of these things. Once bought, it might get taken out of the box once or twice and listened to. On the other hand, I shudder to think what the fate of some of these dolls will be, whether they be expended in ersatz voodoo rituals by people who invoke the names of Al Franken and Michael Moore, or utilized in more base things. Or, it could be that Barbie and Skipper get their trendy materialistic Mattel liberalism challenged by the new teacher in the class, who Ken falls head over heels in love for, and as such must choose to Be a Man, instead of the neutered plastic thing he is now. Or maybe Ann could slap some sense into these thug-looking "Bratz" dolls that I keep seeing in toy stores.

Of course, if Annie C. was sold in a two-pack set with Laura Ingraham (depending upon which Laura they modeled) I'd be a lot more likely to order. Toss in the holy trinity of television news (FNC's Jennifer Eccleston, MSNBC's Natalie Morales, and CNN/HN's Rudi Bakhtiar) and you've got a sale.

Of course, it's also worth noting that talkingpresidents is marketing a Donald Rumsfeld doll. Hee hee. That's a trip. If the thing says, "There are things that we know, things that we don't know, things that we know we don't know, and things that we don't know that we don't know", I'm sold. A good bonus in that event would be for the thing to declare stuff "unknowable".

A Richard Nixon doll better be on the horizon, especially with "V-for-victory" arm motion action. Helicopter and Mrs. Nixon sold separately.

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